Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto

Golden Days
2024-01-12 20:30 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
In January, Aterballetto returns to the Fonderia in Reggio Emilia with Golden Days by Johan Inger, kicking off the new year and dance season. The evening blends the smoky vibes of Rain Dogs with the upbeat energy of BLISS and a playful solo in Birdland, creating a nostalgic journey set to the tunes of Tom Waits, Patti Smith, and Keith Jarret.
“As we age, we often reflect on our life journey. This time, I look back with a genuine smile, reminiscing about the radiant and carefree days.”
Johan Inger
“It’s like a dance concert—a cantabile andante, an adagio, and a rondo. Yet, it’s all about dance, accompanied by a magnificent soundtrack.”
Sergio Trombetta, La Stampa

Info & Tickets
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced for under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL members Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced price under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online on www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at the Fonderia is open from 7.30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

POP UP - Un fossile di cartone animato
2024-01-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Reinventing the animated book in a theatrical form, Pop up – Un fossile di cartone animato weaves together the micro-stories of a paper child and a small, enigmatic sphere. The rhythmic, chromatic, and sonic evolutions of their relationship, their encounters, reflections, and transformations come to life on stage.
The adventures of the child and their little ball give rise to a symbolic play of geometries and metamorphoses, touching on central aspects of imagination: fantasy, invitation, threat, and dream. Two actresses, both animators, breathe life and voice into the two paper protagonists, playing with the emergence of figures and shapes over time, their interweaving with their bodies, movement, and the illusion of motion, as well as the synchronicity between voices and images.
Suitable for children aged 3 and up
CREDITS
A project by Giulia Gallo, Giovanni Guerrieri | I Sacchi di Sabbia
In collaboration with Giulia Solano
With Marta Capaccioli, Lucrezia Palandri, and Paolo Romanini
Books by Giulia Gallo
Lighting concept by Emiliano Curà
Set construction by Paolo Romanini
Production by Teatro delle Briciole – Solares Fondazione delle Arti
POP UP: THE SHOW
The chromatic exploration of various cartoons comprising the performance serves as a powerful means to delve into basic emotions and create sets of associations between feelings, shapes, and colors. The variations on the theme, harmonizing with the musical exploration of ambient sounds, become a flexible tool for an experimental exploration of the child’s imagination.
The concept of scenically reinventing the pop-up book, the challenge of creating a handcrafted cartoon—a sort of cardboard fossil in the age of 3D—is a precious opportunity for reflection on animation, its contemporary techniques’ saturation and invasiveness. It opens the door to a more evocative and less aggressive direction, allowing more room for imagination in the era of digital dominance. Additionally, it provides a chance to experimentally blend manipulation, object theater, and sounds—lines of exploration cherished by I Sacchi di Sabbia, now, for the first time, directed towards and compared with a young audience.
THE AUTHORS

I SACCHI DI SABBIA
Over the years, the Company has distinguished itself on the national stage, receiving significant recognition for the uniqueness of its research focused on reinventing contemporary popular scenes. Already winners of two ETI Awards for “Il Debutto di Amleto,” I Sacchi di Sabbia received a nomination for the 2003 Ubu Award for the show Orfeo. Il respiro (“…for their intertwining of irony, history, and metaphysics”) and won the Special Ubu Award in 2008. In perpetual oscillation between tradition and exploration, between the comic and the tragic, I Sacchi di Sabbia’s work has materialized into a language balancing various arts (visual arts, dance, music). They explore unconventional performance spaces while maintaining a keen and attentive eye on the territory in which the spectacular event takes place.

INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full Price: 6 euros
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket service at Fonderia is available from 5:00 PM.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Phone and WhatsApp: +39 3341023554
Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it

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POP UP - UN FOSSILE DI CARTONE ANIMATO
2024-01-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Reinventing the animated book in a theatrical form, Pop up – Un fossile di cartone animato weaves together the micro-stories of a paper child and a small, enigmatic sphere. The rhythmic, chromatic, and sonic evolutions of their relationship, their encounters, reflections, and transformations come to life on stage.
The adventures of the child and their little ball give rise to a symbolic play of geometries and metamorphoses, touching on central aspects of imagination: fantasy, invitation, threat, and dream. Two actresses, both animators, breathe life and voice into the two paper protagonists, playing with the emergence of figures and shapes over time, their interweaving with their bodies, movement, and the illusion of motion, as well as the synchronicity between voices and images.
Suitable for children aged 3 and up
CREDITS
A project by Giulia Gallo, Giovanni Guerrieri | I Sacchi di Sabbia
In collaboration with Giulia Solano
With Marta Capaccioli, Lucrezia Palandri, and Paolo Romanini
Books by Giulia Gallo
Lighting concept by Emiliano Curà
Set construction by Paolo Romanini
Production by Teatro delle Briciole – Solares Fondazione delle Arti
POP UP: THE SHOW
The chromatic exploration of various cartoons comprising the performance serves as a powerful means to delve into basic emotions and create sets of associations between feelings, shapes, and colors. The variations on the theme, harmonizing with the musical exploration of ambient sounds, become a flexible tool for an experimental exploration of the child’s imagination.
The concept of scenically reinventing the pop-up book, the challenge of creating a handcrafted cartoon—a sort of cardboard fossil in the age of 3D—is a precious opportunity for reflection on animation, its contemporary techniques’ saturation and invasiveness. It opens the door to a more evocative and less aggressive direction, allowing more room for imagination in the era of digital dominance. Additionally, it provides a chance to experimentally blend manipulation, object theater, and sounds—lines of exploration cherished by I Sacchi di Sabbia, now, for the first time, directed towards and compared with a young audience.
THE AUTHORS
I SACCHI DI SABBIA
Over the years, the Company has distinguished itself on the national stage, receiving significant recognition for the uniqueness of its research focused on reinventing contemporary popular scenes. Already winners of two ETI Awards for “Il Debutto di Amleto,” I Sacchi di Sabbia received a nomination for the 2003 Ubu Award for the show Orfeo. Il respiro (“…for their intertwining of irony, history, and metaphysics”) and won the Special Ubu Award in 2008. In perpetual oscillation between tradition and exploration, between the comic and the tragic, I Sacchi di Sabbia’s work has materialized into a language balancing various arts (visual arts, dance, music). They explore unconventional performance spaces while maintaining a keen and attentive eye on the territory in which the spectacular event takes place.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS

Full Price: 6 euros
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket service at Fonderia is available from 5:00 PM.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Phone and WhatsApp: +39 3341023554
Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it

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OPEN REHEARSAL - RUGGINE / PLAY_BACH DIVERTISSEMENT
2024-01-24 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Open Rehearsal – 6:00 PM
Show – 8:30 PM

Rust / Manfredi Perego
“Self-portrait
Noise grinds
Natural within”
Rust is a reflection on the product of the antagonism between darkness and light in humans. Rust is a dramaturgical thought that deals with the dark, unease, caprice,
suffering; observing these emotions and the actions they provoke without judgment. Rust is a dedication to the area that is usually hidden with great effort. The choreography does not generate an answer, but rather creates a path that allows one to immerse and cross these moods and dissect them without prejudice. Like in a liberating dedication to the annoying part of ourselves, the choreography outlines and crosses a sequence devoid of chronology, an ideal representation of what is usually considered a flaw.
PLAY_BACH DIVERTISSEMENT / Balletto Teatro di Torino
“The choreographic challenge is to give visual and dynamic concreteness to the emotion that each note expresses, capturing the nuances of Bach’s music by translating into dance a process of emotional analysis of what the musical score suggests.
The violence and sweetness that arise from the vibration of the played notes must have a physical correspondence, creating dances that traverse worlds of new carnal frequencies. The project starts from the need to challenge oneself with classical musical scores, never tackled before, to discover new approaches to choreography and open up to new dynamic visions. Studies on Bach will be a choreographic gym, a mutable choreographic space, which does not end its evolution. Live music stitches the dancer’s epidermis to the place, bringing it to another level of interpretation and listening. At the same time, the air moved by the bodies impacts the musicians, making tangible the action of dance on the instrument.” – Manfredi Perego

CREDITS
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RUST
Choreography/Dance by Manfredi Perego
Original Music by Paolo Codognola
Lighting Design by Roberta Faiolo
Duration 20 minutes
A work produced by Tirdanza, with the co-production of Milanoltre Festival, in collaboration with Fondazione TeatroDue Parma, Europa Teatri
PLAY_BACH DIVERTISSEMENT
Choreography by Manfredi Perego
Dancers: Flavio Ferruzzi, Lisa Mariani, Luca Tomasoni, Nadja Guesewell, Viola Scaglione
Music by J.S. Bach performed live by Janine Bratu
Lighting Design by Roberta Faiolo
Costume Design by Majatai
Production by Balletto Teatro di Torino
In collaboration with Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Giuseppe Verdi” di Torino
Duration 30 minutes
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AUTHORS
MANFREDI PEREGO
Born in Parma in 1981, Manfredi Perego began studying contemporary dance at his mother Lucia Perego’s school. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and continued his dance studies while simultaneously starting his professional career as a freelance dancer in Switzerland and Germany. In 2013, he developed his first personal movement research project. In 2014, he founded MP.ideograms and the following year debuted at the Equilibrio Festival and at the Vetrina della Giovane danza d’autore in Ravenna. In 2016, he participated in the “VITA NOVA” project of the Venice Biennale with the first chapter of the “Primitiva” project, which continued in 2017 at Scenario Pubblico in Catania. In the same year, he won the GD’A Giovane Danza D’Autore Award. Since 2017, he has collaborated with BTT Balletto Teatro di Torino as a guest teacher and since 2019 as a choreographer. He was an Associated Choreographer at the National Dance Production Center Scenario Pubblico/CZD in the three-year period 2019-2021. In the three-year period 2022-24, he became an Associated Choreographer at the MilanOltre Festival. Currently, he teaches as a freelance instructor in various professional training programs in Italy and abroad.
BALLETTO TEATRO DI TORINO
Balletto Teatro di Torino is an organization dedicated to production, training, and programming in the field of dance.
Supported by MIC, Regione Piemonte, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione CRT, Città di Torino, TAP Torino Arti Performative. In network with NEST Rete degli Organismi di Produzione di Danza del Piemonte.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full Price: 3 euros
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at Fonderia is active from 5:00 PM.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Phone and WhatsApp: 3341023554
Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Ruggine / PLAY_BACH DIVERTISSEMENT
2024-01-24 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Open Rehearsal – 6:00 PM
Performance – 8:30 PM
Ruggine / Manfredi Perego
Ruggine is a contemplation of the outcome of the antagonism between darkness and light within humans. It is a dramaturgical exploration of the obscure, restlessness, caprice, suffering; observing these emotions and the actions they provoke without judgment. Ruggine is a dedication to the area that is usually concealed with great effort. The choreography doesn’t generate an answer but rather creates a path that allows immersion and traversal of these moods, dissecting them without prejudice. Like a liberating dedication to the bothersome part of ourselves, the choreography sketches and traverses a sequence without chronology, an ideal representation of what is usually considered a flaw.
PLAY_BACH DIVERTISSEMENT / Balletto Teatro di Torino
The choreographic challenge is to give visual and dynamic concreteness to the emotion that each note expresses, capturing the nuances of Bach’s music and translating into dance an emotional analysis process of what the musical score suggests. The violence and sweetness that arise from the vibration of the played notes must have a physical correspondence, creating dances that traverse worlds of new carnal frequencies. The project starts from the need to challenge classical musical scores, never tackled before, to discover new approaches to choreography and open up to new dynamic visions. Studies on Bach will be a choreographic gym, a mutable choreutic place that doesn’t end its evolution. Live music stitches the dancer’s epidermis to the space, taking interpretation and listening to another level. At the same time, the air moved by the bodies impacts the musicians, making tangible the dance’s action on the instrument.
CREDITS
RUGGINE
Coreography/Dance by Manfredi Perego
Original Music by Paolo Codognola
Lighting Design by Roberta Faiolo
Duration 20′
A work produced by Tirdanza, co-produced by Milanoltre Festival, in collaboration with Fondazione TeatroDue Parma, Europa Teatri
PLAY_BACH DIVERTISSEMENT
Choreography by Manfredi Perego
Dancers Flavio Ferruzzi, Lisa Mariani, Luca Tomasoni, Nadja Guesewell, Viola Scaglione
Music by J.S. Bach performed live by Janine Bratu
Lighting Design by Roberta Faiolo
Costumes by Majatai
Production by Balletto Teatro di Torino
In collaboration with the State Conservatory of Music “Giuseppe Verdi” in Turin
Duration 30′
THE AUTHORS
MANFREDI PEREGO
Born in Parma in 1981, Manfredi Peregо began practicing contemporary dance at the age of 17 in his mother’s school. In 2002, he was a scholarship holder at the Isola Danza Academy directed by Carolyn Carlson and worked as a freelance dancer in theater-dance and contemporary dance companies across Europe. Upon returning to Italy, he collaborated with Simona Bertozzi and Damian Munoz for various dance companies. In 2014, he founded MP.ideograms and won the Equilibrio Prize with the solo “Grafiche del Silenzio.” In 2016, he participated in the VITA NOVA project at the Venice Biennale with the first chapter of the Primitiva project, which continued in 2017 at the National Center for Dance Production Scenario Pubblico/Compagnia Zappalà Danza, where he became an Associate Choreographer for the triennium 2018/20. In 2017, he began collaborating as a guest teacher with the Balletto del Teatro di Torino, winning the GDA Award in the same year from Emilia Romagna.
BALLETTO TEATRO DI TORINO
Balletto Teatro di Torino is an organism for production, training, and programming in the field of dance. Supported by MIC, Regione Piemonte, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione CRT, Città di Torino, TAP Torino Arti Performative. In collaboration with NEST, the Network of Dance Production Organizations in Piedmont.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full Price: 10 euros
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket service at Fonderia is available from 5:00 PM.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Phone and WhatsApp: 3341023554
Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it

YELED - SECUS
2024-01-26 21:00 - 22:00 | Politeama Clarici, Via Garibaldi, 147, Foligno, PG, 06034, Italia
On Friday, January 26th, Aterballetto arrives in Foligno at the Teatro Politeama Clarici, as part of the 2023/2024 season organized by the Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria. On this occasion, the entire company of sixteen dancers presents Yeled and Secus, choreographed by Israeli choreographers Eyal Dadon and Ohad Naharin, respectively.
Yeled by Eyal Dadon

Yeled in Hebrew means child. Can we change ourselves as adults? Can we go back to being children?
“In the process of creation with the dancers, I reflected on the moment in our lives, as adults, when we lost the feeling of being children, the feeling of being naturally pure, and the ability to have clean filters. When was the moment we lost our innocence and why? One of the main keys to the creation is the real things we learned as children and how these things shaped us into the people we are today.” – Eyal Dadon
Secus by Ohad Naharin

Secus boasts a musical collage that ranges from the unusual electronic styles of AGF to the seductive Indian melodies of Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai, to the resonant harmonies of the Beach Boys. This adventurously eclectic mix serves as the suitable backdrop for a bold and extravagant choreography that unfolds before our incredulous eyes in a human alphabet made up of sprints, solos, crisp and clean gestures, interrupted duets. Through precise and sudden kicks, sinuous disarticulation of hips, torsos bending in all directions like molding clay, Secus expresses pure emotions and feelings without becoming sentimental.

ALPHA GRACE - "O" - SHOOT ME
2024-01-28 17:00 - 18:00 | Teatro Comunale, Via Giuseppe Mazzini, 15, 06059 Todi PG, Todi, PG, 06059, Italia
Sunday, January 28th Aterballetto performs at the Teatro Comunale di Todi, as part of the 2023/2024 season organized by the Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria. For the occasion, the entire company of sixteen dancers presents a triptych composed of Alpha Grace, and “O” by Philippe Kratz, and Shoot me by Diego Tortelli.

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Between past and future, two creations by Philippe Kratz. Alpha Grace, a pas de six, is a reflection on empathy, a form of gentle communication between people who feel on the same level. It, too, is put to the test by the present times.
Following that is “O”, two bodies/automatons that force us to question how the sense of physical contact might change: will it remain emotional and felt, or become serial and alienated?
Closing the performance is the choreography by Diego Tortelli, Shoot me, which, in its construction, draws inspiration from the concept of a concert-ballet revisited in a contemporary key, where music and dance accompany each other. A frontal work that aims to establish a direct exchange between the dancers on stage and the audience in the auditorium: a game of seduction, of glances, of sweat, an assault on the senses, and an ode to the body, to breathing the same air, sweat, tears, fury, pride.

Open Rehearsal - Rhapsody in Blue
2024-01-30 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
This month, Fonderia is opening its doors for an open rehearsal with the Aterballetto Company.
On Tuesday, January 30th, at 6:00 PM, the audience at Fonderia can witness the preparation of Rhapsody in Blue, the new creation for 16 dancers premiering at the Teatro Regio di Parma on February 17, 2024. The choreography, set to the famous rhapsody by George Gershwin, is entrusted to Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, internationally acclaimed choreographers.
Open rehearsals are unique moments where you can witness the creation of a performance, engage with the artists, and be amazed by the art of dance: a special occasion that allows the audience to glimpse into the daily routine of dancers and choreographers.

OPEN REHEARSAL - FÀTICO
2024-02-06 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The show FÀTICO will be presented in its world premiere on the upcoming 18th of February, by ORBITA|Spellbound in collaboration with Festival Equilibrio, at the Teatro Palladium in Rome.
FÀTICO is a choreographic and musical project in which singing and dancing mark the time of three prayers. On stage are two performers, equipped with a microphone in contact with the skin, an extension of the body, a trigger point for the almost-physical relationship with the audience, thanks to the instrument provided by vocal action.
Here, singing is not an act of spontaneity, but the product of modification, integration, and enhancement of the encyclopedia of this corporeality. In the words that mark the timing of the choreography, references to nature and the senses give space to memories in their mental space before melting into the words of worship. Progressing through connections and collisions between sonic and choreutic matters, a secular discourse on sanctity is composed, asking the audience to let themselves be directed by the fàtico listen!
It doesn’t come from nothing, it’s the peak reached after a long climb.
The sight of the stars now that you know how to look. This show is a song, the voice that persists.
The chorus murmured in the field when your hands are still dirty from working.
Fàtico is not just time passing, it’s medicine.
The potion that exalts and condemns life.
To reinvent descent and legitimacy. Because a step was missing.
Fàtico is a rope, a prosthesis, an act, that power that cannot be exploited.
That distance where we have never touched, but almost.

CREDITS
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Project, choreography, vocal writing, and performance Irene Russolillo
Sound creation, vocal writing, and performance Edoardo Sansonne/Kawabate
Lighting design and technical direction Valeria Foti
Costume creation Marta Genovese
Pattern maker Sandra Barlocci
Collaboration on vocal dramaturgy and vocal coaching Patrizia Rotonda
Texts by Ladan Osman, Adam Zagajewski, Annamaria Ortese, David Thoreau, Irene Russolillo
Production by ORBITA|Spellbound – National Dance Production Center of RomeSupport for creative residencies by Cango – Centre of Relevant Interest for Dance Virgilio Sieni, National Dance Foundation Aterballetto/National Choreographic Centerwith the support of TRAC – Theatres of Contemporary Artistic Residency in Puglia and in collaboration with SPINTIME labs
Duration 45′
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AUTHORS
IRENE RUSSOLILLO
Irene Russolillo is a dancer, vocalist, performer, and choreographer. Her journey is characterized by a hybrid and transdisciplinary approach to the stage. She creates solo projects or collaborates with visual artists, musicians, and dancers, both in Italy and internationally. She is an associated artist of ORBITA|Spellbound, the national dance production center in Rome, where she is based. Her latest creations in 2022 include “Dov’è più profondo,” created in collaboration with producer and composer Edoardo Sansonne and researcher and curator Irene Pipicelli, which debuted at the T*Danse Festival in Aosta, and “If there is no sun,” co-authored with video artist and director Luca Brinchi and musician and performer Karima DueG, which premiered at the Teatro India in Rome. Since 2014, she has received numerous awards: Equilibrio Best Performer Award, Masdanza Best Performer Award, Virginia Reiter Best Actress Under 35 Award (nomination), Prospettiva Danza Award; she was selected as an artist for “Le promesse dell’arte” at the IIC in Paris, CROSS Award, and the “Bando Abitante” selection by Virgilio Sieni Danza. She was an associated artist of the Oriente Occidente Dance festival, selected by the Crisol and Crossing the Sea networks, and collaborated with GRIOT for the production “Mirrors” as part of Italia Culture Africa 2019. As a dancer, she worked for many years with Roberto Castello and collaborated with Lisi Estaras, Abbondanza-Bertoni, and many other choreographers. Her nomadic training has allowed her to have important encounters with educators throughout Italy and Europe. Among them, the pivotal early encounters for her career were with Gabriella Musacchio for classical dance, Ivan Wolfe and his movement research, and the Ensemble of Micha Van Hoecke, where she gained her first professional experiences. Later on, she trained with Italian masters such as Sosta Palmizi and instructors like David Zambrano, Thomas Hauert, Company Blu for improvisation, Julyen Hamilton, and many others. Her background also includes a degree in Political Science and the French diploma for teaching contemporary dance.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 3 euros
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at Fonderia is available from 5:00 PM.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACT
Phone and WhatsApp: 3341023554
Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Stravaganze in sol minore
2024-02-10 16:30 - 17:30 | Teatro Cristallo, via Dalmazia, 30, Bolzano, 39100, Italia
FND/Aterballetto-Stravaganze in sol minore
Stravaganze in sol minore by Francesca Lattuada is at Teatro Cristallo in Bozen.
The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914-1998), a master not only of images but also of words, is at the heart of this new creation for children, young boys and girls signed by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto. The protagonists are dancer Vittoria Franchina and baritone Piersilvio De Santis.
The almost magical vibrations that spring from Scialoja’s poems are like the infinite rings that are created at the surface of the water when a stone is thrown: evocative of unreal or hyperreal images, bearers of a musicality that mixes poetry and nursery rhyme, they make the extraordinary and the frightening go together.
Sotto un cespo di rose scarlatte
Offre il rospo tè caldo con latte
Sotto un cespo di rose paonazze
Tocca al rospo sciacquare le tazze.
(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)
CREDITS
Direction and choreography: Francesca Lattuada
Texts: Toti Scialoja (from La mela di Amleto)
Music: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara Rockmore
Masks and objects: Natali Fortier
Performer: Vittoria Franchina, Piersilvio De Santis
Coproduction: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Centro Teatrale Bresciano
In coproduction with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

Anastasia - L'ultima figlia dello Zar
2024-02-11 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
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Berlin, 1920. A woman, after being rescued from death in a canal and months of muteness in a hospital, reveals herself to be Anastasia, the last daughter of the Romanovs, the Russian royals slaughtered by Bolshevik militias in 1918. A survivor. One of the most mysterious cases of the twentieth century. Is it her or isn’t it?
One detail could reveal it… the color of her eyes… the scar hidden beneath the clothes worn out by time and madness. A saying! A secret word never revealed that now passes from mouth to mouth. The people want her now. Is it me or isn’t it me? Memory will play with her image reflected in the hospital window glass, closed off from the world; it will be revealed by the whistle of the train lost in the snow, the music of a suddenly enchanting music box. A desire, a dream, a memory, or reality?
The music keeps the beat and time passes, fleeing like a horse, relentless, leaving behind particles of memory and desire, which become a timeless dance. The dance bursts into space and, in dialogue with the video projections, recreates distant places that transform, expand, crumble the walls of that hospital in which Anastasia is trapped in the search for herself.
But is reality always necessary?
Show suitable for an audience of all ages

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CREDITS
Idea by Roberta Ferrara
Direction, dramaturgy, set design, and lighting design by Michelangelo Campanale (artistic director of La luna nel letto)
Choreography by Roberta Ferrara
Performers Antonello Amati and Moreno Guadalupi / Giulia Bertoni, Serena Angelini, and Rebecca Moriondo Visual artists Alessandro Vangi and Raffaele Fiorella
Narrator Maria Pascale
Costume designer Franco Colamorea
Production Equilibrio Dinamico Company and La luna nel letto
THE AUTHORS
FERRARA ROBERTA
Roberta Ferrara (1988) is the founder, artistic director, and choreographer since 2011 of Equilibrio Dinamico Dance Company, based in the city of Bari, Puglia, Italy. In 2020/21, she served as the associate artistic director for Odyssey Dance Theatre, Singapore, one of the leading organizations in professional dance arts in Asia. For over ten years, she has been the artistic director and coordinator of the international pedagogy programs TEEN and ENSEMBLE, hosting annually over 30 international artists. Her methodology has cultivated a perpetual nursery of future dance generations, fostering synergistic educational and cultural exchanges with various formations in England, India, Japan, and Korea.
Graduating in Modern Literature with a focus on Theater Culture from the University of Bari A.Moro, Ferrara wrote an experimental thesis on the value of instinctive movement as a therapeutic gift for both dancers and non-dancers. As a passionate pedagogue, her research expands through immersive studies with various artists in techniques, practices, and languages of international contemporary dance. This combination forms the basis for her personal creative work dedicated to a poetics always connected to human beings and their inner universe, creating her own teaching methodology that addresses multiple levels of perception: body – mind – spirit.
She has been a guest for various renowned dance institutions, including Theater Basel (CH), Teatrul de Balet Sibiu (RO), English National Ballet School (UK), Delattre Dance Company (DE), Northern School of Contemporary Dance (UK), Copenhagen Dance Festival (DNK), Conservatorio Professional de Danza, Lugo (ES), Korea Ballet House (KR), Staatstheater Augsburg (DE), Conservatorio Internacional Annarella Sanchez (PT), Eko Dance Project (IT), Experimental Film Virginia (USA), Teatro Moravo Olomuc (CZ), Odt (SGP).
Her creations have been selected and invited to various international festivals, including Masdanza, FIDCMX Mexico, Cortoindanza, Network Danza Urbana XL, Festival Ammutinamenti Anticorpi XL, ZED Festival, Puglia Showcase, DanzInc, BallettGala Staatstheater Bremerhaven, Prospettiva Danza Teatro, Festival delle 100 Scale, Danza in Rete Festival, Lucky Trimmer, Fuoriformato Festival, Vivadança, Albania Dance Meeting, SoloCoreografico USA, Solo Contemporary Dance Festival Ankara, Sid Festival Seattle, Interdans, Split Summer Festival, Quinzena de Dança de Almada, and the Solo Tanz Theater Festival, where she received the award for best choreographer and a residency award from the director and chief choreographer R. Fernando of Staatstheater Augsburg, Linkage-Contemporary Dance Miniatures Sophia, where she received an invitation as a guest choreographer for Stara Zagora State Opera by director S. Tomova, and the InDivenire Award, where she received the best dance project award presented by the étoile L. Savignano.
Her classes and creations have been invited in Italy, Mexico City, America, Albania, Kosovo, Vietnam, Belgium, Germany, Croatia, Singapore, India, Japan, Korea, Portugal, Turkey, Brazil, Lebanon, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, and Denmark.
EQUILIBRIO DINAMICO
Equilibrio Dinamico was founded in 2011 by its current artistic director, Roberta Ferrara. The company, now based in Bari, has gained attention for being a unique entity in the Italian dance scene. Recognized since 2021 by the Ministry of Culture as an Under35 Dance Production Organization, it is the only entity in the Puglia region with such recognition. Equilibrio Dinamico is often described as “a voice outside the chorus,” highlighting an artistic strategy counter to the trends in young Italian dance, with the aim of creating a European-profiled reality that nurtures synergies among artists.
From the beginning, Roberta Ferrara aimed to build a contemporary repertoire company with an international scope, inviting various choreographers to create new works. The dance cahier includes voices such as Jiří Pokorný, Igor Kirov, Bert Uyttenhove, Matthias Kass & Clément Bugnon, Marco Blázquez, Riccardo Buscarini, Aida Vainieri, Brandon Lagaert, among others, contributing to the creation of a repertoire with diverse perspectives. Additionally, Equilibrio Dinamico has an equally significant educational repertoire, featuring works by Imre van Opstal, Guy Shomroni, Lior Tavori, Alejando Moya, Miguel Altunaga Verdecia, Alice Godfrey, Isaiah Wilson, Manuel Rodriguez, Sasha Riva & Simone Repele, Pablo Girolami. The company has been invited to perform in seasons and festivals across Europe, America, and Asia, establishing collaborations with various Italian Institutes of Culture in Mexico, New York, Athens, São Paulo, San Francisco, Ankara, Cologne, and Zagreb, thanks to the collaboration of the current general director Vincenzo Losito, production manager.
Furthermore, Equilibrio Dinamico develops collateral training and audience promotion projects, creating an active dialogue with the regional circuit Teatro Pubblico Pugliese and affiliated municipalities. In 2022, marking the ten-year celebration of the international training program ENSEMBLE, the company entered into a partnership with VERVE, the postgraduate company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds (UK). Attentive to emerging national choreographic voices, Equilibrio Dinamico supports the perspectives of new generations through the annual residency call ABITARE, a productive support project in collaboration with the over thirty-year-old multidisciplinary international festival Castel dei Mondi, Andria.
Carmelo Zapparrata on Hystrio, YEAR XXXV 2/2022 April/June
INFO & TICKETS
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Open rehearsal - Rhapsody in Blue
2024-02-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Also this month, the Foundry opens its doors to an open rehearsal with the Aterballetto Company.
On Monday, February 12th, at 6:00 PM, the audience at the Foundry will be able to witness the preparation of Rhapsody in Blue, the new creation for 16 dancers that will debut at the Teatro Regio di Parma on February 17th, 2024. The creation, set to the music of the famous rhapsody by George Gershwin, is entrusted to Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, internationally renowned award-winning choreographers.
Open rehearsals are unique moments where you can witness the creation of a show, interact with the artists, and marvel at the art of dance: a special opportunity that allows the audience to enter the daily routine of dancers and choreographers.

YELED / RHAPSODY IN BLUE / SECUS
2024-02-17 20:30 - 21:30 | Teatro Regio, Strada Giuseppe Garibaldi, 16/a, Parma, 43121, Italia
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On the occasion of the opening of the 2024 Dance Season at the Teatro Regio di Parma, CCN/Aterballetto presents a trilogy of creations, including the premiere of Rhapsody in Blue, a new original production by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich. Also featured are Yeled by Eyal Dadon and Secus, a creation by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin.

In the desire to revitalize ParmaDanza through new and quality proposals, since my arrival at the Teatro Regio di Parma, I have intended to start from the excellences present in the territory, first and foremost the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto, the only National Choreographic Center recognized by the Italian Ministry of Culture.
For our Theater, it is essential to embrace contemporaneity and welcome new languages: CCN/Aterballetto, year after year, confirms itself as an incubator of creativity, development, and experimentation, open to new artistic canons, with a constantly updated perspective.These are the values that unite us and drive us to co-design and co-produce, relying on great names in international choreography and simultaneously working to spread and enhance the culture of dance in society.

Luciano Messi
Superintendent of the Teatro Regio di Parma

Starting a collaboration with the Teatro Regio di Parma, precisely coinciding with the start of the development and revitalization project that Superintendent Messi is carrying out, we together wondered what the best direction of work would be. And it came naturally to think of orienting ourselves towards a musically valuable piece. ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is one of those rare pieces that have become an aesthetic, and even emotional, center of gravity of their time and country. And exactly one hundred years have passed since the creation of George Gershwin’s masterpiece.Here we are, therefore, once again underlining how important it is to collaborate across different disciplines, promoting a more contemporary vision of artistic creation.
Gigi Cristoforetti
General and Artistic Director
National Choreographic Center / Aterballetto

THE PROGRAM

YELED – Eyal Dadon

Stravaganze in sol minore
2024-02-18 16:00 - 17:00 | Teatro di Meano, via delle Sugarine, 22, Meano, TN, Italia
FND/Aterballetto-Stravaganze in sol minore
Stravaganze in sol minore by Francesca Lattuada is at Teatro Mina Mezzadri in Brescia.
The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914-1998), a master not only of images but also of words, is at the heart of this new creation for children, young boys and girls signed by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto. The protagonists are dancer Vittoria Franchina and baritone Piersilvio De Santis.
The almost magical vibrations that spring from Scialoja’s poems are like the infinite rings that are created at the surface of the water when a stone is thrown: evocative of unreal or hyperreal images, bearers of a musicality that mixes poetry and nursery rhyme, they make the extraordinary and the frightening go together.
Sotto un cespo di rose scarlatte
Offre il rospo tè caldo con latte
Sotto un cespo di rose paonazze
Tocca al rospo sciacquare le tazze.
(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)
CREDITS
Direction and choreography: Francesca Lattuada
Texts: Toti Scialoja (from La mela di Amleto)
Music: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara Rockmore
Masks and objects: Natali Fortier
Performer: Vittoria Franchina, Piersilvio De Santis
Coproduction: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Centro Teatrale Bresciano
In coproduction with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

Stravaganze in sol minore
2024-02-20 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-02-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Teatro Mina Mezzadri, Contrada Santa Chiara, 50, Brescia, 25122, Italia
FND/Aterballetto-Stravaganze in sol minore
Stravaganze in sol minore by Francesca Lattuada is at Teatro Mina Mezzadri in Brescia.
Two performances:
Tue 20.02 h 11.00
Wed 21.02 h 11.00
The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914-1998), a master not only of images but also of words, is at the heart of this new creation for children, young boys and girls signed by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto. The protagonists are dancer Vittoria Franchina and baritone Piersilvio De Santis.
The almost magical vibrations that spring from Scialoja’s poems are like the infinite rings that are created at the surface of the water when a stone is thrown: evocative of unreal or hyperreal images, bearers of a musicality that mixes poetry and nursery rhyme, they make the extraordinary and the frightening go together.
Sotto un cespo di rose scarlatte
Offre il rospo tè caldo con latte
Sotto un cespo di rose paonazze
Tocca al rospo sciacquare le tazze.
(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)
CREDITS
Direction and choreography: Francesca Lattuada
Texts: Toti Scialoja (from La mela di Amleto)
Music: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara Rockmore
Masks and objects: Natali Fortier
Performer: Vittoria Franchina, Piersilvio De Santis
Coproduction: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Centro Teatrale Bresciano
In coproduction with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

YELED / RHAPSODY IN BLUE / SECUS
2024-02-22 20:30 - 21:30, 2024-02-23 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
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Thursday 22 / Friday 23 February 2024 – 8:30 PM
In February, the Aterballetto Company returns to dance at the Fonderia in Reggio Emilia with a double bill.

On stage, a triptych composed of two repertoire choreographies: Yeled by Eyal Dadon opening the evening and Secus by Ohad Naharin concluding it. Interspersing them, the new production created by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich set to the notes of George Gershwin, debuting at the Teatro Regio in Parma on February 17: Rhapsody in Blue.
The evening involves the entire company of 16 dancers: in the first creation, Israeli choreographer Eyal Dadon leads a reflection on the moment in life when children lose their innocence; with Rhapsody in Blue Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich offer an innovative interpretation of Gershwin’s famous rhapsody, just as it celebrates its 100th anniversary; Secus, the eclectic masterpiece by Ohad Naharin, concludes, a bold and extravagant choreography of races, solos, crisp gestures, and interrupted duets.

It is recommended to purchase tickets online. Booking by phone, email, and WhatsApp will be available from Tuesday, February 13, 2024.

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CREDITS
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YELED
Creation for 16 dancers of the company
Choreography Eyal Dadon
Music Eyal Dadon
Set and lights Fabiana Piccioli
Costumes Bregje Van Balen
Production National Dance Foundation / Aterballetto
Co-production Foundation I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
With the support of the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Israel in Italy
Premiere April 27, 2022, Reggio Emilia, Teatro Municipale Valli
Duration 30′
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RHAPSODY IN BLUE
Creation for 16 dancers of the company
Choreography Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich
Music George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue
Set and costumes Fabio Cherstich
Lights Eric Soyer
Production National Dance Foundation / Aterballetto
Co-produced with Foundation Teatro Regio di Parma
Premiere February 17, 2024, Teatro Regio di Parma
Duration 20′
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SECUS
Restaging for 16 dancers of the company
Choreography Ohad Naharin
Music Chari Chari, Kid 606 + Rayon (mix: Stefan Ferry), AGF, Chronomad (Wahed), Fennesz, Kaho Naa Pyar Hai, Seefeel, The Beach Boys
Sound design & editing Ohad Fishof
Costumes Rakefet Levy
Lights Avi Yona Bueno (Bambi)
Choreography assistants Rachael Osborne, Ian Robinson
Creation for Batsheva Dance Company (within Three, 2005)
Production National Dance Foundation / AterballettoCo-produced with Festival Oriente Occidente (I), Les Halles de Schaerbeek (B), Malraux scène nationale Chambéry Savoie (F)
Premiere September 6, 2019, Festival Oriente Occidente, Teatro Zandonai, RoveretoDuration 30′
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Stravaganze in sol minore
2024-02-27 10:00 - 11:00 | Teatro Comunale Laura Betti, Piazza del Popolo, 1, Casalecchio di Reno, BO, 40033, Italia

OPEN REHEARSAL -LENA
2024-02-29 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Lena is a performance that arises from an investigation into the gesture of pushing, understood as a multifaceted relational gesture.
The object to which this research refers is the swing: an object of ancestral simplicity of which we all know the sensation and condition. An object capable of providing us with a specific and exclusive dynamic of movement. Starting from these premises and from the investigation around the swing object, of which the playful dimension is also mentioned, the performance focuses on the search for that gray area between play and violence, between playful and sadistic, between joke and spite. The push, in its repetition, changes meaning, unleashes different imaginaries, acquires new values: it is a gesture that in the relational sphere often defines roles of power and strength.
This research aims to investigate the different meanings that this gesture carries with it, encapsulating them, showing them, and transforming them through the repetition of a dynamic. In this physical dialogue, a mechanism of pushed and pushing bodies is composed, a human machine made of actions and reactions, in which the intention behind the gesture is lost and confused.

CREDITS
The research has developed through the exchange in the studio, at different moments of the process, with the performers Teodora Grano, Chiara Luccisano, Michael Incarbone, Erica Bravini, Daria Greco, Elena Bastogi, Luca Della CorteAnd with the Light Designer Francesco Tasselli
Performers Giulia Cannas, Claudio Larena, Marta Magini
Artistic Consulting Sofia Naglieri
Sound Designer Lorenzo Minozzi
Light Designer Francesco Tasselli
Project supported by Artisti Associati; Associazione Culturale Chiasma; Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
AUTHORS
CLAUDIO LARENA
A young author and performer who explores the languages of installation, dance, and performance. After the studio debut of his first work at the RomaEuropaFestival 2020, he continues his creative path with the conception of three new projects: -LENA; Le Spinte; Stiamo Lavorando per voi (ci scusiamo per il disagio). He trains by participating in workshops with national and international artists, with particular attention to the performative field. His authorial projects always take different formats: urban performance and scenic writing; word performance and choreographic research. A craftsman by training, he often questions the entity of objects, their meanings, and the physical, historical, or conceptual relationship that arises from our connection with them.

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OPEN REHEARSAL - THE RED SHOES
2024-03-02 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Open rehearsal at 6:00 PM – Performance at 8:30 PM
Dancers from the Nuovo Balletto di Toscana present The Red Shoes, choreographed by the award-winning German choreographer Philippe Kratz, dedicated to the homonymous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
As in the tale of the girl Karen and a pair of strange red shoes, Andersen repeatedly challenges in his works the traditional dichotomy between subject and object. Kratz’s creation, with music specially composed by Pierfrancesco Perrone, addresses this strangely indissoluble bond, which is not determined solely by functional utility or vain desire for possession but can also entail a loss of autonomy. The projections related to the desires that dominate our world of goods and consumption are also reflected by dividing the scenic space in two. In contrast to the fairy tale, which ends with the violent liberation of the protagonist from the red shoes and her redemption, Kratz’s choreography ultimately focuses on questioning the role of objects in interpersonal relationships.
I don’t perceive Karen as disobedient or vain, a perspective that is emphasized in the fairy tale. Nowadays, we are so accustomed to consuming and often see products as a means to an end, to get noticed by others, to relate to others, and to emphasize our individuality. Karen also tries to connect with others and find security through the red shoes. In this, she fails miserably. Yet, what she seeks corresponds to a desire that many of us probably know: to belong to a collective and yet remain an individual.
Philippe Kratz

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CREDITS
Choreography and set design: Philippe Kratz (Reggio Emilia/Leverkusen)
Dramaturgy: Sarah Ströbele (Leipzig/Magdeburg)
Music: Pierfrancesco Perrone
Lights: Giulia Maria Carlotta Pastore (Light Designer)
Costumes: Grace Lyell (Paris)
First Performance: October 19, 2023, Teatro Sociale Di Trento
Duration: 60 Minutes
Performers: Nuovo Balletto Di Toscana, 10 dancers (Florence)
AUTHORS
NUOVO BALLETTO DI TOSCANA

The Nuovo Balletto Di Toscana is a strictly professional production structure, founded in 2018 with a team of 10 dancers. The artistic program of the Florentine company, thanks also to a team of renowned collaborators and authors alongside Cristina Bozzolini, reflects a constant and coherent cultural line with the affirmation of the primacy of contemporary choreography and a plurality of expressive languages.

For several years, it has had a consolidated relationship with the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, with the representation of full-length ballets, such as Diego Tortelli’s La Bella Addormentata and Jiří Bubeníček’s Cenerentola, as well as participating in some operas such as: Le Villi choreographed by Susanna Sastro, Fernando Cortez choreographed by Alessio Maria Romano, and Die Fledermaus choreographed by Karl Schreiner.

At the same time, the company has been engaged in a new creation by Arianna Benedetti, staging the show titled Pulcinella, Uno di Noi, winner in 2019 of the SIAE Per chi crea grant. The collaborations of the NBDT also extend to other prestigious Italian theaters including La Fenice in Venice and the Teatro Regio in Parma, and it is currently continuing its tours in Italy and abroad with Jiri Bubenicek’s Cenerentola, Michele Di Stefano’s Bayadère – il regno delle ombre (awarded the Danza&Danza prize as best Italian production of 2021), Mario Bermùdez Gil’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps, and Philippe Kratz’s Midnight Youth.

PHILIPPE KRATZ
Winner of the 32nd International Choreography Competition in Hannover and Choreographer of the Year 2019 (Danza&Danza), Kratz is known for his diverse compositional language that combines contemporary dance with technical elements from hip hop and European classical dance. He recently presented his choreography ‘Solitude Sometimes’ at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, sharing the evening with acclaimed authors in theaters worldwide such as Jiří Kylián, Nacho Duato, David Dawson, invited by the director of the La Scala ballet corps Manuel Legris.

INFO & TICKETS
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TICKETS
Full price: three euros
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at Fonderia is active from 5:00 PM.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it
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THE RED SHOES - NBDT/PHILIPPE KRATZ
2024-03-02 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Open rehearsal at 6:00 PM – Show at 8:30 PM
Dancers from the Nuovo Balletto di Toscana present The Red Shoes, choreographed by the award-winning German choreographer Philippe Kratz, based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
Like in the tale of the girl Karen and a pair of strange red shoes, Andersen repeatedly challenges in his works the traditional juxtaposition between subject and object. Kratz’s creation, with music specially composed by Pierfrancesco Perrone, tackles this strangely unbreakable bond, which is not only determined by functional utility or vain desire for possession but can also entail a loss of autonomy. The projections related to the desires that dominate our world of commodities and consumption are also reflected by dividing the stage space into two. In contrast to the fairy tale, which ends with the violent liberation of the protagonist from the red shoes and her redemption, Kratz’s choreography ultimately focuses on questioning the role of objects in interpersonal relationships.
I don’t perceive Karen as disobedient or vain; a perspective that is emphasized in the fairy tale. Nowadays, we are so accustomed to consuming and often see products as a means to an end, to be noticed by others, to relate to others, and to emphasize our individuality. Karen also tries to connect with others and find security through the red shoes. She fails miserably in this. Yet, what she seeks corresponds to a desire that many of us probably know: to belong to a collective and yet remain an individual.
Philippe Kratz

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CREDITS
Choreography and set design: Philippe Kratz (Reggio Emilia/Leverkusen)
Dramaturgy: Sarah Ströbele (Leipzig/Magdeburg)
Music: Pierfrancesco Perrone
Lights: Giulia Maria Carlotta Pastore (Light Designer)
Costumes: Grace Lyell (Paris)
First Performance: October 19, 2023, Teatro Sociale Di Trento
Duration: 60 Minutes
Performers: Nuovo Balletto Di Toscana, 10 Danzatrici E Danzatori (Florence)
THE AUTHORS
NUOVO BALLETTO DI TOSCANA

The Nuovo Balletto Di Toscana is a strictly professional production structure, founded in 2018 with a team of 10 dancers. The artistic program of the Florentine company, thanks also to a team of renowned collaborators and authors alongside Cristina Bozzolini, reflects a constant and coherent cultural line with the affirmation of the primacy of contemporary choreography and a plurality of expressive languages.

For several years, it has had a consolidated relationship with the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, with the representation of full-length ballets, such as Diego Tortelli’s La Bella Addormentata and Jiří Bubeníček’s Cenerentola, as well as participating in some operas such as: Le Villi choreographed by Susanna Sastro, Fernando Cortez choreographed by Alessio Maria Romano, and Die Fledermaus choreographed by Karl Schreiner.

At the same time, the company has been engaged in a new creation by Arianna Benedetti, staging the show titled Pulcinella, Uno di Noi, winner in 2019 of the SIAE Per chi crea grant. The collaborations of the NBDT also extend to other prestigious Italian theaters including La Fenice in Venice and the Teatro Regio in Parma, and it is currently continuing its tours in Italy and abroad with Jiri Bubenicek’s Cenerentola, Michele Di Stefano’s Bayadère – il regno delle ombre (awarded the Danza&Danza prize as best Italian production of 2021), Mario Bermùdez Gil’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps, and Philippe Kratz’s Midnight Youth.

PHILIPPE KRATZ
Winner of the 32nd International Choreography Competition in Hannover and Choreographer of the Year 2019 (Danza&Danza), Kratz is known for his diverse compositional language that combines contemporary dance with technical elements from hip hop and European classical dance. He recently presented his choreography ‘Solitude Sometimes’ at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, sharing the evening with acclaimed authors in theaters worldwide such as Jiří Kylián, Nacho Duato, David Dawson, invited by the director of the La Scala ballet corps Manuel Legris.

INFO & TICKETS
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TICKETS
Full price: 10 euros
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at Fonderia is active from 5:00 PM.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Stravaganze in sol minore
2024-03-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Teatro Girolamo Magnani, Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, 1, Fidenza, PR, 43036, Italia
Stravaganze in sol minore by Francesca Lattuada is in Fidenza (PR), at the Teatro Girolamo Magnani.
The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914-1998), a master not only of images but also of words, with which a dancer and a baritone play, is at the heart of this new creation for children, signed by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto.
The almost magical vibrations that emanate from Scialoja’s poems are like the infinite rings that form on the surface of water when a stone is thrown: evocative of unreal or hyperreal images, carriers of a musicality that blends poetry and nursery rhyme, making the extraordinary and frightening come together.
Sotto un cespo di rose scarlatte
Offre il rospo tè caldo con latte
Sotto un cespo di rose paonazze
Tocca al rospo sciacquare le tazze.
(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)
CREDITS
Direction and choreography: Francesca Lattuada
Texts: Toti Scialoja (excerpted from La mela di Amleto)
Music: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara Rockmore
Masks and objects: Natali Fortier
Performers: Vittoria Franchina, Piersilvio De Santis
Co-production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Centro Teatrale Bresciano
In co-production with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

OPEN REHEARSAL - Puccini’s Opera. Voci di donne
2024-03-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Compagnia Artemis Danza, with this new creation by Monica Casadei, dedicates its artistic project to the contemporary representation, investigation, and interpretation of four captivating heroines of the Lucchese composer: Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Mimì , and Turandot.
Understanding Puccini’s music involves analyzing its deep relationship with the female world. A clear message from the titles chosen for his most celebrated works: Tosca, Butterfly, Turandot, La Bohème. A kaleidoscope of different personalities, a universe full of facets, sensitivities. In the four scenes that make up Puccini’s Opera, recognizable even without any didactic necessity, we find Casadei’s personal interpretation of the feminine theme, placed at the center of a process of choreographic, visual, and musical reinterpretation. Tragic love, thwarted and opposed love, cruel love that annihilates, the desire for possession that leads to destruction, live in the faces, bodies, and gestures of the Company and continue to make us reflect on the relevance of stories that have moved audiences worldwide. The creation is permeated with a poignant atmosphere, full of tension and poetic suggestion.
Against Puccini’s orchestral score, the electronic tracks of composers Luca Vianini and Fabio Fiandrini counterpose, creating an enveloping and at times apocalyptic sound space. A choral dance, swollen with impulses and passions, instinctive and at times wild, which makes a swirling use of space and appears, also symbolically, visually full: solos protected by frames of ensembles in a dynamic accelerated by propulsive forces make the drama and passions of the protagonists live in the body and guts.

CREDITS
Choreography, direction, set design, lighting, and costumes by Monica Casadei.
Music by Giacomo Puccini.
Musical elaboration by Fabio Fiandrini.
Production by Compagnia Artemis Danza.
Co-produced with Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Ferrara.
With the support of Ministero della Cultura, Regione Emilia-Romagna – Assessorato alla Cultura, Comune di Parma.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 3 euros
PURCHASE TICKETS
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The ticket service at Fonderia is available from 5:00 PM.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it

OPEN REHEARSAL - Corpi violati #DjOperaNoir
2024-03-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
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In CorpiViolati , a community of bodies, both feminine and masculine, thrives, thirteen in total, bound by the memory of a wound. Whether still open or healed, this wound reverberates on the stage in an incessant dance fueled by impulses, instincts, anger, and pain, where overwhelming group dances alternate with duets and solos, and vulnerable bodies stand alongside violent and ruthless bodies of aggressors upon whom a veil of pity never descends, at least until they themselves become victims.
Born from the search for testimonies of rape and abuse victims and from improvisational work in the studio with the dancers, Monica Casadei constructs a performance oscillating between raw realism and poetry dictated by a possible redemption. At its core, the victims, too often blamed and cornered in the lengthy judicial processes faced to obtain justice, inhabit a bare stage dominated by two defendant benches and a backdrop of gold and black damask. Antithetical colors – on one side, the brilliance and light of gold; on the other, the enigmatic darkness of black – create a precious tapestry of an imaginary domestic hearth where respect and love should reign. Musically, the remixed electronic samples by Fiandrini ebb and flow within the story in melodrama and symphonic music.

CREDITS
Choreography, direction, set design, lighting, and costumes by Monica Casadei.
Live Electronics by Fabio Fiandrini.
Production by Compagnia Artemis Danza/Monica Casadei.
Co-produced with Festival di Danza Contemporanea Teatro Comunale di Ferrara.
In collaboration with Comune di Rimini and Teatro Galli.
With the support of Ministero della Cultura, Regione Emilia Romagna, and Comune di Parma.
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YELED / SHOOT ME / RHAPSODY IN BLUE
2024-03-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Victoria Eugenia Antzokia, Argentinar Errepublika, 2, 20004 Donostia-San Sebastian, Gipuzkoa, Spagna, San Sebastián, 20004, Spagna
The Aterballetto Company arrives in the Basque Country, in San Sebastián, to open the Feria des Artes Escenicas with a program of three choreographies involving the entire company of 16 dancers.
The evening begins with Yeled by Eyal Dadon, followed by Shoot Me by Diego Tortelli, and concludes with Rhapsody in Blue, the new production by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, debuting in February 2024.
YELED – Eyal Dadon
Yeled, a Hebrew word meaning “child,” brings to the stage the reflection that Israeli choreographer Eyal Dadon , together with the dancers of Aterballetto, has undertaken on the moment in life when one loses the innocence of childhood.

SHOOT ME – Diego Tortelli
Shoot Me by the resident choreographer of CCN / Aterballetto, Diego Tortelli, is a frontal work that establishes a direct exchange relationship between the dancers on stage and the audience in the auditorium. A game of seduction, gazes, sweat, an assault on the senses, and an ode to the body, to breathing the same air, sweat, tears, fury, pride.

RHAPSODY IN BLUE – Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich
«Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin holds various attractions for us. It is beautiful music, known but perhaps not so frequently heard by newer generations. Introducing this work to the young audience is a good goal, and it can be a way to provide a less distant and less ‘American’ vision of Gershwin, going beyond the cultural context in which the rhapsody was created. The rhapsody will naturally dictate the choreographic work, and the lively, sparkling changes it offers are fantastic to play with.»– Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich

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CREDITS
YELED
Creation for 16 dancers of the company
Choreography by Eyal Dadon Music by Eyal Dadon Set and lights by Fabiana Piccioli Costumes by Bregje Van Balen
Production by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto Co-production by Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
With the contribution of the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Israel in Italy
Premiere April 27, 2022, Reggio Emilia, Teatro Municipale Valli
Duration 30’
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SHOOT ME
Restaging for 16 dancers of the company
Creation for 16 dancers of the company
Choreography by Diego Tortelli Music by Spiritualized Costumes by Marco De Vincenzo Lights by Roman Fliegel
Production by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto Co-production by Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
Premiere April 27, 2022, Reggio Emilia, Teatro Municipale Valli
Duration 30’
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RHAPSODY IN BLUE
Creation for 16 dancers of the company
Choreography by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich Music by George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue; Bessie Jones, Beggin’ the blues Set and costumes by Fabio Cherstich Lights by Eric Soyer
Production by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto In co-production with Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma With the contribution of Etxepare Euskal Institutua
Premiere February 17, 2024, Teatro Regio di Parma
Duration 20′

Dreamers
2024-03-12 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-03-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Opernhaus, Am Boeselagerhof 1, Bonn, 53111, Germania
Aterballetto dances in Bonn the triple bill Dreamers, composed of Secus by Ohad Naharin, “O” by Philippe Kratz and BLISS by Johan Inger.
Dreamers offers a unique opportunity to admire the company through shades of contrast, from the joyful concert in dance by Johan Ingerto the unstoppable and hypnotic rhythm of Philippe Kratz, to vigorous rituality of Ohad Naharin.

COL TEMPO - AMBRA SENATORE
2024-03-13 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Ambra Senatore loves to surprise and mischievously lead the audience along paths, true or false, with which she plays and makes fun of the spectator. As always in her choreographies, characters take shape, situations and stories develop. Unexpected discrepancies, absurdity, and distraction from reality are the main ingredients of her choreographies. Ambra Senatore wants to create amazement, she sets out to provoke laughter. A keen observer of the human world, she is always attentive, being different is her second nature and she gives precise meaning to her dance. That’s why she often breaks the fourth wall, becoming a confidant of the spectators, playing with them and engaging them. Ten years after her first group choreography entitled Passo, Ambra Senatore dedicates herself to a new creation with the complicity of the performers from that time. She now brings together this group of dancers, now well-seasoned after ten years of working together, to create a generous and open dance towards the other; a pas de quatre on being a group, questioning existence and desiring happiness.

CREDITS
Coreography Ambra Senatore with the participation of the performers
Interpretation Caterina Basso, Claudia Catarzi, Matteo Ceccarelli, Ambra Senatore
Original Music Jonathan SeilmanLighting Fausto BonviniDuration 1hProduction CNN de Nantes
Co-production Théâtre de La Ville (Paris), Torinodanza Festival/Teatro Stabile – Teatro Nazionale Torino
CHOREOGRAPHY
“We started rehearsals at the end of January 2020, and one of the basic reasons was reflection on the creative act in the historical, political, and social context: a reflection also inspired by interesting encounters with scientists and philosophers with different views on the world and the present, realized through the project Conversation, dialogue ouvert avec la danse. Being a small community part of a much larger community, we wondered what our desires were and how to achieve them together. Some of them can be realized on stage. And the others? Not always finding the answers, we meanwhile played with the questions. Shortly after the start of rehearsals, time stopped for everyone. For a long time, compressing. Rehearsal weeks were cut in half. The desires and questions no longer had anything to do with the unexpected experience of the last few months. At the time I write these lines, the show does not yet exist. It will exist thanks to the encounter with the spectators. Creating a show is like traveling: you prepare, you rehearse, but there are always many surprises and unexpected events. We are at the beginning of the journey and I do not know exactly what form it will take. Certainly, the desire to dance and feel good together is present from the beginning, with the hope that it will be possible on a large scale.”Ambra Senatore
AMBRA SENATORE
AMBRA SENATORE

Ambra Senatore, choreographer and performer, director of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes. Ambra Senatore’s dance is close to human beings and loves to go out and meet people and places. The choreographer creates works that speak of collectivity and create bonds between people. Relationships are at the heart of all her research. In her work, everyday life is “observed under a magnifying glass,” shifted and turned upside down. A lover of surprises, cuts, and repetitions reminiscent of cinema, Ambra Senatore recomposes reality like a film director. In Italy, she trained with R. Castello and R. Giordano, with whom she soon collaborated. As a performer, she has worked with J. C. Gallotta, G. Rossi, G. Lavaudant, and A. Tagliarini. In the early 2000s, she created pieces in collaboration while completing a doctorate in contemporary dance. In 2004, she began writing choreographies with solos, which she performed until 2009, and then with group pieces, asserting her hybrid style that combines dance, theater, and profound humanity. As director of the CCN in Nantes since 2016, Ambra Senatore promotes a generous and curious style of dance (site-specific creations in public parks, markets, schools, museums, heritage sites, train stations, etc.), which she considers a means of sharing and knowing oneself and others.
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Un jour nouveau | Birthday Party
2024-03-14 20:30 - 21:30 | Teatro Sociale, Via Felice Cavallotti, 20, Brescia
The artistic heart of the Over Dance project arrives on the stage of the Teatro Sociale di Trento.
The two renowned choreographers Rachid Ouramdane and Angelin Preljocaj sign respectively Un Jour nouveau and span style=”color: #d40000;”>Birthday Party and address the theme of the transformation of the body with an evening of senior performers (aged 65 to 79).
The body transforming with the years is a central theme in our society, and in the sensitivity of each of us. Ageing is not a problem for the actor, writer or visual artist: for those who dance, however? What is the real age of the body?
Four performances:
Thu 14.03 h 20.30
Fri 15.03 h 20.30
Sat 16.03 h 18.00
Sun 17.03 h 16.00
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The evening is a co-production of Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto with Ballet Preljocaj (Aix-en-Provence), Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris), ERT/Teatro Nazionale (Modena), Fondazione I Teatri (Reggio Emilia), Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara (Trento).
Supporter and scientific partner: Ravasi Garzanti Foundation (Milan)
In partnership with Municipality of Reggio Emilia and Farmacie Comunali Riunite
with the support of Nuovi Mecenati – Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea and Institut français
